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9/11Fastest, highest, strongest : a critique of high-performance sport
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Explores the use of drugs and other performance-enhancing practices in sport, tracing the development of the situation through its socio-political history. This work presents a critique of the use of athletes as representatives of political regimes, and the constant striving for medals that has altered the ethos of the Olympic Games
Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-186) and index
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Book Cover; Half-Title; Series-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 From Coubertin's dream to high-performance sport: The shifting dynamics of Olympic sport; 2 Steroids: Nazi propaganda, cold war fears, and "androgenized" women; 3 "Sport," German traditions, and the development of "training"; 4 From Stalingrad to Helsinki: The development of German sport systems; 5 "Something had altered in the faces of the pigs ... ": Converging sport systems in the GDR and FRG
Explores the use of drugs and other performance-enhancing practices in sport, tracing the development of the situation through its socio-political history. This work presents a critique of the use of athletes as representatives of political regimes, and the constant striving for medals that has altered the ethos of the Olympic Games
Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-186) and index
Print version record
Book Cover; Half-Title; Series-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 From Coubertin's dream to high-performance sport: The shifting dynamics of Olympic sport; 2 Steroids: Nazi propaganda, cold war fears, and "androgenized" women; 3 "Sport," German traditions, and the development of "training"; 4 From Stalingrad to Helsinki: The development of German sport systems; 5 "Something had altered in the faces of the pigs ... ": Converging sport systems in the GDR and FRG
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